Why the study?
Does ICU treatment in 1988-1990 improve hospital survival compared to 1979-1982 in patients with organ system failure?
Population
23,117 ICU admissions across 60 intensive care units at 53 U.S. hospitals.
Comparison
ICU treatment between 1988 and 1990 vs ICU treatment between 1979 and 1982
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
until hospital discharge
Authors
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May enhance early mortality risk stratification in organ failure; extends scoring models but leaves open applicability to modern ICUs.
Does ICU treatment in 1988-1990 improve hospital survival compared to 1979-1982 in patients with organ system failure?
A continuous measure of physiologic disturbance severity on day 1 is a more accurate predictor of hospital mortality than simply counting the number of organ system failures.
Zimmerman et al. (1996) studied this question.
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